Workplace retaliation charges hit a record high in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's last fiscal year, continuing a long-running upward climb that experts said was aided by the U.S. Supreme Court's 2006 decision relaxing the rules governing these allegations.
Workers who need computer systems to do their jobs must be paid for time spent getting those systems ready, including booting up employer-provided machines, the U.S. Department of Labor told the Sixth Circuit in a bid to revive remote healthcare call center workers' claims that they were denied pay for that time.
Noncompete provisions in employment agreements do not generally violate employees' rights under federal labor law, a National Labor Relations Board attorney said in an advice memo released Friday that shows the agency's new top prosecutor has reversed course on one of her predecessors' initiatives.